Whenever there’s a threat to George Soros’s regime, you can bet that a number of his grantees will swarm like bees to protect the hive. Enter the disgraced, extremist Southern Poverty Law Center.
A number of lefty organizations and activists penned an open letter to leadership at Fidelity Charitable, Vanguard Charitable and Charles Schwab Affiliate DAFgiving360 lambasting them for halting donations to the SPLC following a massive fraud scandal. The Department of Justice announced April 21 that the SPLC was indicted on multiple fraud charges for financing the very white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups it was claiming for years to be crusading against, to the tune of $3 million.
The letter made SPLC, another Soros cash recipient, out to be some kind of a victim: “By acting without adjudicated facts, institutions risk moving away from their role as responsible stewards of charitable funds and toward a form of preemptive institutional compliance that enables the use of state power to silence dissent by targeting civil society organizations.”
Alexa, define “operational risk.”
MRC Business researched the signatories and found that at least 10 of them received a whopping $204,505,779 from the Soros empire collectively between 2016 and 2024 alone. At least three of the leftist Soros-backed powerhouse groups named in the letter — the New Venture Fund, the Hopewell Fund and the Windward Fund — were all previously part of the notorious dark money giant Arabella Advisors, which dissolved in November 2025 after drawing a wave of legal scrutiny from the GOP-led Congress.
The Capital Research Center concluded in 2025 that Arabella had “been instrumental in almost all the electoral and policy victories the Left has achieved across the nation at the federal, state, and even local levels,” and their coffers were consistently flush with millions of dollars from Soros.
The ensuing letter didn’t bother to address any of the specifics of the legal indictments for “fraud” against the SPLC, whose years of hate-mongering against conservatives and Christians have gone as far as to stoke real violence against its political detractors (e.g. Family Research Council 2012 shooting). Instead, the Soros grantees and other signatories tap-danced around the fraud by making the usual allegations that SPLC was "targeted" because they're fighting for "racial justice" -- as if that stated cause absolves them if they commit financial crimes.
It is not coincidental that SPLC, an organization that has been fighting for civil rights, racial justice, and democratic equality in this country for more than 50 years was targeted. The administration’s politically motivated and retaliatory charges on the SPLC are part of a broader effort to suppress perceived political and ideological opponents across civil society – especially those confronting white supremacist violence, advancing racial justice, and upholding civil rights.
Another dishonorable mention with explicit Soros ties outside of the MRC tally, the leftist Democracy Alliance, was also a signatory. Soros was dubbed by The New York Times in 2024 as a “founding backer” of the Alliance. Politico called Democracy Alliance “the most powerful network of Democratic donors” in 2021.
Both the Alliance’s current president Pamela Shifman and her predecessor, Gara LaMarche, were former employees of Soros within his Open Society network. When LaMarche announced his resignation in 2020, then-Open Society Foundations U.S. Programs Executive Director Tom Perriello issued high praise for LaMarche’s efforts to shape the leftist political movement, which in retrospect seems to have been a gambit to mesh it in with the Soros brand:
Gara is the godfather of progressive philanthropy, and I would be hard-pressed to think of a leader or organization he has not helped to shape, fund, advise or mentor. He has quietly wielded enormous influence building and shaping the progressive infrastructure we see today. He’s transformed philanthropy while bridging divides between those in power and those speaking truth to power on the frontlines of activism.
Americans should be wary anytime a collective push from the left to protect their bottom line springs up like this. It’s never organic or grassroots. And you can be guaranteed 95 percent of the time that you will find Soros money sloshing around if you look underneath enough rocks.
METHODOLOGY: MRC Business compiled the data for this report directly from the Open Society Foundations public grant database. MRC included funding groups that were signatories to the open letter to charities and their affiliated organizations (if any). One group, Funders' Committee for Civic Participation, is both a project of fellow signatory NEO Philanthropy and a separate signatory. For this reason, the funding for the FCCP was counted separately from the donations to NEO Philanthropy and its affiliated Action Fund to avoid double counting.
